Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
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Friday 27 October 2006, 10:15pm
Cursive: Big Bang (3'11")
Cursive - American rockers from Nebraska in the USA - are Tim Kasher, Matt Maginn, Clint Schnase and Ted Stevens. They combine technical virtuosity with attitude and lyrical intelligence. Happy Hollow is described as their most adventurous work so far.
album: Happy Hollow
Saddle Creek Europe SCE94PR
www.cursivearmy.com
www.saddle-creek.com
Ingrid Laubrock & Liam Noble: Spells (genetically modified by Sebastian Rochford) (3'30")
This album features a number of jazz standards interspersed with short improvisations. Ingrid Laubrock plays the soprano saxophone, Liam Noble the piano.
album: Let's call this.
Babel BDV2661
www.babellabel.co.uk
www.ingridlaubrock.com
www.liamnoble.co.uk
Les Georges Leningrad: Scissorhands (3'19")
Poney P sings and plays the DJ-X 60 synth. Mingo L'Indien plays guitar and the ML-RCC synth.
Bobo Boutin plays drums and the E-303 synth.
Les Georges Leningrad is a love and hate story: the one of Bobo Boutin, Mingo L'Indien and Poney P. They met in the year 2000 during a fight in an Ontario street tavern: Bobo was at the time a bohemian singer, Mingo a contemporary music student at University of Montreal. Poney was writing hundreds of songs in a big schoolbook while dreaming of sharing the stage with the greatests: Plume, Sun Ra and Felix Kubin. Eight note F2 undulating synthesizers riffs, an explosive rhythmic inspired by the sambo (Russian self defense technique invented in the 1930s) and the sexy voice of the "South-Central Lil' Amazon" submerge us in the eerie and unforeseeable universe of the Petrochemical Rock.
album: Sangue Puro
Tomlab TOM 80 PR
www.tomlab.com
People Like Us: Stand By Your (2'57")
For 16 years Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and A/V multimedia under the name People Like Us. Ever since she has been animating and recontextualising found footage collages with an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge, both pre-recorded and in a live setting. Vicki has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The National Film Theatre, Purcell Room, The ICA, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Sonar in Barcelona and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
album: All Together Now
White Label
Available from www.peoplelikeus.org
Sandro Perri: Romeo Heart (slight return) (5'28")
Sandro Perri is a Toronto-based songwriter and electronic composer who also records as Polmo Polpo. A full-length Sandro Perri album is due early in 2007.
album: Plays Polmo Polpo
Constellation CST042-2
Crimetime Orchestra feat. Bjornar Andresen: Live is a Beautiful Monster part 1 (3'47")
Crimetime Orchestra is a 10-piece Norwegian group formed in 2002 by Bugge Wesseltoft (synth/effects), Bjornar Andresen (double bass/effects), Vidar Johansen (Tenor saxophone) and Jon Klette (Alto saxophone), and also featuring Kjetil Moster (tenor saxophone), Oyvind Braekke (trombone), Sjur Miljeteig (trumpet), Anders Hana (guitar), Ingebricht Haker Flaten (bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums/percussion). This was recorded at "Bugge's Room" in October 2004, and is the last recorded performance made by the late Bjornar Andresen.
album: Life is a Beautiful Monster
Jazzaway JARCD 009
The Last Town Chorus: Wire Waltz (2'40")
The Last Town Chorus was born in the Spring of 2001 in Park Slope, Brooklyn. After months of slow-burning hours as a duo (Megan, voice and delay lapsteel - Nat, vibrato guitar), the sound and feeling clicked. The debut album emerged in the summer and autumn of 2002. The Last Town Chorus' live performances now range from duo sets to large ensembles featuring collaborators from pop, classical, rock and jazz worlds. The Last Town Chorus lives in Brooklyn, New York.
album: Wire Waltz
Loose Music White Label
www.thelasttownchorus.com
The Squirm Orchestra: Per Arsin (4'50")
The Squirm Orchestra is a sextet from Michigan & Indiana in the USA. They're a live improv electro band who rehearse in a barn owned by a Chicago corn trader who has an affinity for the arts..
album: White label
Imitation Electric Piano: Relatively Good Times (6'05")
From IEP's second album. The band - from Brighton - are headed by Stereolab bassist Simon Johns. They feature the vocals of Mary Hampton, who reminded Simon of Pentangle's Jacqui McShee.
album: Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds
Duophonic Super 45s DS45-CD39
www.duophonic.com
Erdem Helvacioglu: Frozen Resophonic (6'39")
Erdem Helvacioglu's live album of treated solo acoustic guitar was made without overdubs or recourse to any previously recorded material. Besides his electronic music, Erdem composes for theatre and film, and produces the music of other Turkish artists.
album: Altered Realities
New Albion NA131
www.erdemhelvacioglu.com
www.newalbion.com
Benoit Pioulard: La guerre de sept ans; Together & down (6'15")
This is the first album from the 21-year old guitarist from Michigan, Thomas Meluch, who is fascinated with tape delay and the sounds of nature
album: Precis
Kranky krank098
www.pioulard.com
www.kranky.net
Forest Jackson: Cymbalism (4'26")
Berlin-based drummer and producer Hanno Leichtmann records under the names Static, Paloma, White Hole and Vulva String Quartett, and has also written music for radio and theatre in Germany. This album was mastered by Stefan Betke, aka Pole.
album: Cymbalism
Mosz 009
www.mosz.org
www.static-music.com
The Ruby Suns: Birthday on Mars (4'50")
The Ruby Suns, from New Zealand, take inspiration from 60s and 70s eccentrics like Van Dyke Parks and Curt Boettcher. They're a quintet headed by 23-year old singer and guitarist Ryan McPhun.
album: The Ruby Suns
Memphis Industries MI080CDP
www.memphis-industries.com
www.lilchiefrecords.com
Boom Pam: Lajdi (1'45")
Boom Pam came to attention in Tel Aviv in 2003, and consist of two electric guitars, a tube and drums. They arrange Balkan, Jewish, Greek & Mediterranean songs, imbuing them with a rock attitude, and continue to play at weddings and parties throughout Israel.
album: Boom Pam
Essay Recordings AY CD 05
www.essayrecordings.com
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Next week: at the later time of 10:30pm and featuring Brian Eno's Choice of 3 from 1998
